On 12/15/05, Technotranscendence<div><span class="gmail_quote"><b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <<a href="mailto:neptune@superlink.net">neptune@superlink.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">







<div>Nope.  You move to private militaries and then you can use 
technologies like nuclear weapons in self-defense.  Your neighbors might 
have a huge army, but that will be a huge burden on them -- as militaries tend 
to be -- while your nuclear device keeps them from invading.  </div></blockquote><div><br>Hehe...<br><br>"He's not our customer!"<br>-- Wil W. Brierson, in Vernor Vinge's "The Ungoverned"<br><br><a href="http://everything2.com/?node=Briefest+apologia+for+the+use+of+nuclear+weapons+in+literature">
http://everything2.com/?node=Briefest+apologia+for+the+use+of+nuclear+weapons+in+literature</a><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ungoverned">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ungoverned</a><br> </div><br></div>
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